A weekly series to share my art discovery with first the work that caught my eye...
Last week, I went to see the exhibition Points de Départ Points qui Lient gathering the last works of Bharti Kher. Great exhibition in order to (re)discover this artist, many works with sculptures, collage with bindis, plaster... It's difficult to choose one but the series of old maps with bindis are very interesting.
I’ve seen more things than I dare to remember 4, Bindis on paper map, 2015
WHO
Born in 1969 in London, Bharti Kher is an Indian artist with a degree in painting at Newcatle Polytechnic in 1991. After her studies, she flipped a coin, heads New-Yotk, tails New Delhi. And the destiny decided direction India in 1993 and her work will changed with the energy of the country, a time of tensions between the old and the new.
Many of her works shows the problems of Indian society like Mother and Child that came about after thee 2012 Delhi gang rape case. The artist tried to understand "*Who are these boys and sons who then inflict such violence on other women ?". And sadly, still in the news in all around the world... Or with this plaster of Six women, prostitutes of the red light district of Kolkata.
Mother and Child, Resin wood and wax, 014
Six Women, plaster and wood, 2013-2015
WHAT
She works with Indian materials as sari fabric and especially bindis, a word derived from the Sanskrit meaning point, dot or small particle and rootedin in ritual traditions. The bindi evoled over time to become more fashionable with a lot of sizes, colors and shapes.
"My works becoma a text, like a Morse code that I have created and, through them, I can actually speak in tongues, I can speak in code, I can speak in secret." - Bharti Kher in Conversation with Bathi Kher, 2017
An Absence of Assignable Cause, fiberglass and bindis, 2016
This sculpture is an imagining heart of the blue whale made in scale (173 x 300 x 116 cm) and covered full of bindis.
Great exhibition (and free :-)) at DHC/Art to see the works of this artist with also her new series Heroides refering to the Ovid's The Heroines, female voices of Greek and Roman mythology, all made with bindis and automobile lacquer on board.
Sources
Bharti Kher at Galerie Perrotin
DHC/Art Montreal
Bharti Kher on Wiki
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< The Day the met, wooden staircases and sari, 2011